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I wrote an article tangentially related to this: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-set-cubes/

I don't doubt that fun reanimator is possible. Just, you know, space. Some day.

It came together super consistently, and players seemed to like it, although when somebody really got the "dedicated lifegain deck" it could be frustrating to play against. Pridemate is only somewhat needy. It depends what you're looking for. If you see it as a 2-drop that usually becomes a...

Good call. I would run Steadfast over Goldmane if supporting the theme.

Brainstorms are so good individually that it'd be criminal to give multiples away for free. I ran 6 Brainstorms in my last draft and they were taken by 4 different drafters.

I've been really surprised by the number of drafts where multiple people go for pods and people still run 1-pod decks because they have ways to get value out of it.

I really haven't seen Spikeshot do anything in a format that wasn't SOM limited. It's one of those "best case scenario" cards that we all love to dream about. I even was guilty of this, writing in one article something about "suiting up a Spikeshot with Adventuring Gear, cracking a fetch and...

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-subtheme-lifegain-part-one/ http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-subtheme-lifegain-part-2/ There's not a lot I can say here beyond the articles. Nobody but the lifegain player wants a Soul Sister, so you want at most one of...

One thing to keep in mind is that the fewer players you play with, the harder you have to push themes you support (and, generally, the fewer themes that you can support). Not seeing 360 cards in a draft makes a huge difference. The end result is that context-dependent cards like Squee and...

Uh, yeah, there's one person who is a bit dogmatic about Spikeshot Elder but that doesn't mean you're not free to ignore their advice.

I played online poker for the first time in years. Makes me want to never log into MTGO again. Interface is clean and usable, I can watch games in progress, and I can have +EV.

I guess one difference is such a land requires you to have a basic of your splash color.

Yeah, that sounds like one of mine. I've settled on no reanimator cards in my current cube. The tipping point for me was probably when, on Turn 3, I had 20 power on board and had blown up one of my opponent's lands. And there was no way, outside of multiple counterspells, that they could have...

This is interesting, we've had a real influx of low-power cubers as of late.

Why not just make it a fetchland that can only fetch basics? Sans lifeloss.

Is this supposed to include your opponent's shit?

I really hate free-for-all Magic, but some of my favorite "gaming" experiences of all time have involved free-for-all formats. Ownage This pubescantly named game was a 5-player, real life arena combat game won by the last man standing. Basically, you have 5 people on this small park...

I once proxied the following deck for when people asked me to play Commander: Commander 1 Child of Alara Spells 1 Last Chance 1 Final Fortune 1 Warrior's Oath 1 Pact of Negation 1 Pact of the Titan 1 Slaughter Pact 1 Intervention Pact 1 Summoner's Pact 1 Spoils of the Vault Lands 70...

We know Zurgo?

I dropped to 3 for a while. Well, I silently tinker with numbers all the time. But it's been at 3 for a dozen drafts or so.